It sounds like you are sddressing MY overeating problem. If that's the case, you're dead wrong. (When I said morbid obesity was a mental health issue, I was speaking for myself, though I didn't say so in my original post.)
Once I passed 300 lbs I decided I was going to take the weight off. I had a year to go to my HS reunion and wanted to take off 100 lbs. I had always thought that I could do it. Simply eat less than I burn. For months, I was losing weight. About five months. Then I started eating way too much again. I tried like hell to stop but I couldn't. I don't really expect anyone who hasn't had this experience to believe me, because I wouldn't believe it if I had not experienced it. The desire to binge-eat junk food stays with me and it's like an intense itch. Eventually I have to scratch it, but when I do, as soon as there's a little more space in my stomach the itch comes back even stronger, and it seems so depressing to have to return to the state where I'm fighting this urge all the time. It's no way to live.
My overeating is a full-blown compulsion, and that's a mental health issue. The reason for your overeating, if you do overeat, is something I have neither the ability nor the right to analyze.